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b WINKLER 6, GOE athe tab ty are Ant nam The seyen men killed in the infain Tse. Valesitine’s Day massacre—the q ctime ‘in'Chicago gang annals—were: ered: by Fred (‘Killer’) Burke, Clau dox, B sa ou Winkler, F Fr é "Phat le the story F of Byrot Belton” Hh that the actual machine gunners wete tin dox, Humphreys and Winkler. He nami and Goetz as the two “policemen,” armed wi off shotguns, whom witnesses reported see the N. Clark st. garage after the mass mu Bolton has given his story in a detailed forma to the United States government. It is now in } being’ studied by high officials, . “Meanwhile, however, he alan had told it to Chi: and it:ts from them that The Chicago American | mtory. | Army Machine Gunner. ‘#200, are alteged to have pani ~ Bolton, before he entered rime to share the of bootlegging was an expert machine ‘gunner in U Navy,. It was there, according to- his story, that the knowledge which enabled him to handle so de the four ronring weapons which spat wholesale dea ruary 14, 1929, The seven who were killed on that day w were: Be berg, ex-convict; Frank Gusenberg, his brother; Ad alias Arthur Hayes, ex-convict; James Clark, bro of George ("Bugs") Moran, North Side gang lea thne; John May, garage mechanic; Albert Weintha Reinhardt H. Schwimmer. . Plotted in New York, May wasa youth who was a victim of fircume' -ing in the garage at the time the murderers en! Schwimmer associated with gangsters for the “ki out of it. The others were all members of Moran’s onc gang, which then was fighting AI Capone's 5 mobsters, Bolton's story traced the massacre to New Yo xvarice of Frank Vale, notorious eastern gangster, was killed, Dale, he said, coveted “piece” ofa “dog track | operating with Capone's backing in Lyons, TIL Uaie had been an ally of Capone, but the latte wage Fred (“Killer”) Burke, who, The Chicago American reveals today, wag named by Byron Bolton, federal pris- oner, 2s one of the band that slaughtered seven men in the infamous St. Valentine’s Day massacre, Burke, according to Bolton, was one of the two “policemen” who were seen to leave the murder scene after the killings. “He is naw serving a life sentence in Michigan. {Chicago American photo.) | 4 Se ape etme a Pc ttagt